History Literature / StormFrontDresdenFiles

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:Bianca. Had she not attacked Harry when he came to her brothel, he would not have been bleeding later. This caused bloodlust in her, which led to her killing her lover/slave Paula, and this prompted her to initiate the chain of events that sparked the war between the White Council and the Red Court.]]

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Morgan doesn't wear his Warden's cloak.

** Harry's narration directly addresses the reader once or twice, making the book sound like something he wrote and expected others to read. While this is implied to be the case in later books, he never uses that convention again.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
** Morgan doesn't wear his Warden's cloak.

* BigEntrance: When Harry confronts Gentleman Johnny Marcone, he does so by blowing off the doors of his gentleman's club in a burst of magic (towards himself, protecting himself with a shield, so as to keep bystanders from getting hurt), then fireballing the jukebox into slag, and popping every lightbulb in the joint to make an impression. In a later story, Marcone has [[GenreSavvy remembered this]], and has the dramatic entry points of his establishments furnished with flimsy doors, so that when similar things happen, the shrapnel won't do any damage. The ''strategic'' entry points, on the other hand, are equipped [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy with reinforced steel]].

** Murphy has one when [[spoiler:she answer's Harry's phone by saying, "Harry Dresden's residence". This is how Victor Sells knows where to send his demon to attack]].

** Harry mentions that Santa Claus does exist and it would be insane to try an summon him. Harry would end up meeting him a few books down the way.

** [[spoiler:During Marcone's soulgazing with Harry, Harry saw a hint of something that Marcone was keeping deep and hidden but this also galvanized Marcone into the man he was]] This point of fact would come up several times as Harry learns more abut it.

* BlessedWithSuck: There is a (seemingly) B plot in the distribution of the illegal drug Third Eye. Harry doesn't particularly care about it (mundane drugs are not his problem), until he discovers that [[spoiler:it's a ''magic'' drug that ''forcibly'' opens the Sight, even on mundanes. [[GoMadFromTheRevelation Users of the drug are driven completely insane from the first use, unable to ever forget what they've seen.]] And since supernatural Chicago is not a nice place...]]

** Harry has a minor one when he realized [[spoiler:after soulgazing Johnny Marcone and seeing [[PragmaticVillainy what an efficient means he has to running his "business" he is the one to look away first. This in turn makes him lose his air of confidence he had just prior.]]]]

** Harry mentions that Santa Claus does exist and it would be insane to try an summon him. Harry would end up meeting him a few books down the way.

''Storm Front'' is the first book in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', written by Jim Butcher. Now has its own [[ShoutOut/StormFront Shout Out]] page. Do not confuse with [[Website/StormFront Stormfront.com]] or Chimpout.com if these come up as your Google results for this book.

* BigBad: [[spoiler:Victor Sells, a.k.a. The Shadow Man]].

** The Shadowman holds his control over the toad-demon ''Kalshazzak''.
** [[spoiler:Because Shadowman was foolish enough to say it within hearing range of Harry, Harry knew it too and knew how to free the demon of Shadowman's bind]].

* PoorCommunicationKills: Harry and Murphy's trust level in this book isn't very high. When they look at the murder victims, he feels like she suspects him as a possible suspect and she suspects he is holding back on her. So when things get worse and Harry hasn't fully explained himself[[spoiler:Murphy aims to have him arrested for the murders]].

* FanDisservice: [[spoiler: Victor Sell's]] first victims were caught by his spell in the middle of sex. When Harry looks at the murder scene later, he notes that the image could have been "a striking erotic tableau", if it wasn't for the fact that '''they both have had their hearts explode from their chests.''' Harry notes that it really takes down the Fanservice potential.

{{Foreshadowing}}: When Harry is summoning Toot-Toot, he mentions that one ''could'' use the circle to summon, say, Santa Claus, but he doesn't know anyone with stones that big. [[spoiler: Come [[Literature/DeadBeat ''DeadBeat'']], and guess who has the stones to summon the Erlking, who (by Cold Days) appears to be Santa's equal?]]

** Harry's problems with technology are treated more as something wrong with him personally than something all wizards have to deal with.

%% Please no spoilers for future books.

[[TheOneWith The one where]] we meet Harry Dresden, [[OccultDetective wizard PI.]]

[[caption-width-right:248:He's in the book.]]

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Harry's problems with technology are treated more as something wrong with him personally than something all wizards have to deal with.